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FASTING IN Islam:
There is enough medical literature to support the benefits of fasting but many seem to be not knowledgeable about the spiritual aspects from the Islamic point of view.
Prophet Muhammad said as follows" God does not want a person to a person to fast and forsake food, drink and sex if he ( she) does not give up lying and falsehood.
The reason give in the Quran for fasting is very simple, it says " SO THAT YOU MAY ACQUIRE TAQWA" The Arabic word Taqwa means a self correcting faculty within the human person.
It is there to warn you even before even you have actually gone off the course and help you come back if you happen to have strayed.
Of course ONLY IF YOU WANT, TAQWA is auxiliary and facultative, that is why the Quran says " SO THAT YOU MAY…..In Islam's scheme of autonomy and answerability, there is nothing automatic: NEITHER GOOD NOR EVIL; NEITHER REWARD NOR CONDEMNATION
The grace and mercy of God is there but ONE HAS TO STRIVE AND DESIRE.
Being hungry and abstaining from pleasure of sex is no pleasure in itself except when it is for the sake of GOD ALMIGHTY.
Other Islamic rituals are different from Islamic fasting.
People can show off going to Haj or paying charity but how can you show off suffering from hunger. It is easy to tell a lie that you fast but eat secretly.
Fasting helps to crystallize and heighten one's closeness to one's Creator. It is different from ascetic experience as in other religions. The denial (food and sex)is not an end itself.
The same food and the same sensual pleasure become permissible as soon as the sun goes below the horizon. Voluntary hunger and intensive disciplining produces a unique bringing together of feelings and attitudes and demolish all barriers of ego and inequality.
Dignity of a person enhances due to hunger. Fasting is meant to enable man to be closer to his Master and prepare him to take the challenges and responsibilities that face him beyond the cocoon of his ego.
Ideas borrowed from Ismail Faruqis writings
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